We don't know if we'd call Alexandre Desplat the best working composer -- although an argument could certainly be made for that. But we'd certainly call him one of the most prolific. Since the French composer broke out a decade or so ago with "Girl With A Pearl Earring" and the amazing music for "Birth," he's been in high demand, and ever more so as time goes on. In 2011, for instance, he penned the music for no fewer than Nine films -- "Largo Winch II: The Burma Conspiracy," "The Well Digger's Daughter," "A Better Life," "The Tree Of Life," "Carnage," "The Ides Of March," "Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Pt. 2," "Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close" and "Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir." This year he's kept to the same pace, with scores for "Cloclo," "Max Von Sydow: Dialogues With The Renter," "Moonrise Kingdom,"...
- 9/17/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Orlando Bloom hasn’t exactly had the best time of it at the multiplex in recent years. After his successful run in the Lotr and Pirates franchises ended, he’s had a few decent films, but nothing that stood out. So he’ll likely be hoping for better things with Jerome Salle’s Zulu, which finds him teaming up with Djimon Hounsou.Salle, who directed Anthony Zimmer (which was badly remade as The Tourist) and The Burma Conspiracy, has worked with regular co-writer Julien Rappeneau to adapt Caryl Ferey’s novel, set in post-Apartheid South Africa.Bloom and Hounsou will play a pair of South African coppers who investigate crimes including the murder of 18-year-old Nicole Wiese, the daughter of a championship Springbok rugby team player. Suffice to say, things just get darker from there.Zulu is set to start filming in Cape Town this July. Bloom, who was last seen in The Three Musketeers,...
- 2/21/2012
- EmpireOnline
Following the death of his hugely wealthy father, Largo Winch returns from being “off the radar”, to take over his father’s business and then sell it in order to invest in a charitable foundation. But someone is not happy about this plan and Winch finds himself accused of crimes against humanity relating to the extermination of a Burmese village, from which his father seems to have benefited in securing mining rights. The prosecutor for the Icc (Sharon Stone) thinks she has him hook, line and sinker, but Winch knows he is innocent and refuses to believe that his father would have been complicit in such an atrocity. With little to go on, he sets about clearing his name and getting to the bottom of what really happened in Burma.
*****
There is the trifling but ongoing distraction when watching this film of whether it should be called The Burmese Conspiracy,...
*****
There is the trifling but ongoing distraction when watching this film of whether it should be called The Burmese Conspiracy,...
- 1/23/2012
- by Dave Roper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Movie Review: 'Largo Winch II - The Burma Conspiracy'; Director: Jerome Salle; Cast: Julien Rappeneau, Jerome Salle and Sharon Stone; Rating: ** - a muddled mess.
When it comes to art, the secret to being truly global is to be totally local. Hollywood exerts so much influence on world of cinema that all such wisdom is thrown out of the wind. The result is a film like 'Largo Winch II, which despite trying is neither truly French, nor Hollywood.
Largo Winch, adopted son of a billionaire, returns from his self-exile in Burma to take control of the Winch empire after his father's murder. He is not his father and.
When it comes to art, the secret to being truly global is to be totally local. Hollywood exerts so much influence on world of cinema that all such wisdom is thrown out of the wind. The result is a film like 'Largo Winch II, which despite trying is neither truly French, nor Hollywood.
Largo Winch, adopted son of a billionaire, returns from his self-exile in Burma to take control of the Winch empire after his father's murder. He is not his father and.
- 12/11/2011
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
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